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ICWSM
2009
13 years 3 months ago
A Social Identity Approach to Identify Familiar Strangers in a Social Network
We present a novel problem of searching for `familiar strangers' in a social network. Familiar strangers are individuals who are not directly connected but exhibit some simil...
Nitin Agarwal, Huan Liu, Sudheendra Murthy, Arunab...
ICWSM
2010
13 years 7 months ago
A Comparison of Information Seeking Using Search Engines and Social Networks
The Web has become an important information repository; often it is the first source a person turns to with an information need. One common way to search the Web is with a search ...
Meredith Ringel Morris, Jaime Teevan, Katrina Pano...
CSE
2009
IEEE
14 years 21 days ago
Private Buddy Search: Enabling Private Spatial Queries in Social Networks
—With the abundance of location-aware portable devices such as cellphones and PDAs, a new emerging application is to use this pervasive computing platform to learn about the wher...
Ali Khoshgozaran, Cyrus Shahabi
RECSYS
2010
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Interactive recommendations in social endorsement networks
An increasing number of social networking platforms are giving users the option to endorse entities that they find appealing, such as videos, photos, or even other users. We defin...
Theodoros Lappas, Dimitrios Gunopulos
AMT
2010
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
Social Relation Based Search Refinement: Let Your Friends Help You!
One of the major problems for search at Web scale is that the search results on the large scale data might be huge and the users have to browse to find the most relevant ones. Plus...
Xu Ren, Yi Zeng, Yulin Qin, Ning Zhong, Zhisheng H...